Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:47 am
Hi and welcome, nice looking Kombi
TimV Admin
Cabin : Flight 001 Location : Brighton, East Sussex U.K. Posts : 14337 Join date : 2009-09-27
Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:47 pm
Hey - did you import that to New Zealand? Or someone else?
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dazdub
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:02 am
Hi & welcome very nice bay
Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:49 pm
TimV wrote:
Hey - did you import that to New Zealand? Or someone else?
It was imported into NZ in 2009, and sold to the fellow who I bought it off in 2011.
Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:50 pm
dazdub wrote:
Hi & welcome very nice bay
Thanks - it's featured in this months NZ AutoCar magazine, I should have a bunch of photos to post soon.
Would love to visit Wales - my fiance was born in Ebbw Vale
Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:58 pm
I am led to believe that there is only one other water cooled Brazilian Bay in NZ, that's a Final Edition from 2012 which is held at Bill Richardon's Transport World in Invercargill - the owner tells me she can't get hers registered for the road - which means it won't ever leave the museum.
TimV Admin
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:51 pm
Bigjed wrote:
I am led to believe that there is only one other water cooled Brazilian Bay in NZ, that's a Final Edition from 2012 which is held at Bill Richardon's Transport World in Invercargill - the owner tells me she can't get hers registered for the road - which means it won't ever leave the museum.
I was going to say, I've spoken with others who wanted to take a Kombi to NZ but have been refused by legislation. What changed between 2009 and 2012?
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Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:11 pm
Safety standards - airbags that kind of thing. Also the one in the museum is a leftie - mine was converted by Danbury in the UK, so I think they'd have to convert from left to right to go some of the way to get it on the road. You'd bugger the value of a very late model Final Edition by converting it.. I'd think. Theirs has done fewer than 1000km apparently.
Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:17 pm
I have seen another water-cooled Kombi here - this one is (I think) a 1989 Mexican model.
TimV Admin
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:31 pm
So is the legislation based on a chronological year or vehicle year? Ie. can someone import another 2009 Kombi now without issue or was it that from 2012 anything that came in had to have airbags etc?
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Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:35 pm
mine is a good easy example - it came in with rear lap belts, which are illegal in a car manufactured in 2006, but ok in a Kombi made in 1974. They had to be removed. If I wanted to import a 1974 Westie, with lapbelts, not an issue. So a 2009 car has to be fitted with everything which was mandated in legislation for that year, be they airbags or ABS breaks - whatever.
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Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:37 pm
I think the Final Edition one ended up allowed in to the country as a static display only, although it is in full working order. Mine has a rock'n'roll bed, but no rear belts. I can have proper belts installed, just not lappies.
TimV Admin
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:54 pm
Bigjed wrote:
I have seen another water-cooled Kombi here - this one is (I think) a 1989 Mexican model.
Nice use of a later grille to keep it sleek.
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Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:56 pm
I was very surprised to see that one - wasn't even registered yet. I'm not sure where it is now, the photo was taken in Mt Maunganui which is a port town in the Bay of Plenty, so I think it must have unloaded there.
JLS 62
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:10 pm
Cool wheels on yours !!
Bigjed
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Subject: Re: Hello from New Zealand Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:14 pm
JLS 62 wrote:
Cool wheels on yours !!
I think they're cheap knock offs of the Centreline Autodrag - they were put on by the original owner
